An English Garner (Vol V)

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three martial men (who had seen great companies together), as near as they could guess by their seeming show, would have amounted to 150 Ibs., receiving but of every one a pin.
His Majesty coming £o Stamford Hill, there was an oration made unto His Highness; the effect of which I could not truly learn : and hear it, I could not, by reason of the crowd, For even there, being three miles from London, the people were so throng, that a carman let his cart for eight groats [25. 8d.] to eight persons, whose abode in It was not above one quarter of an hour.
From Stamford Hill to London, was a train [hunt] made with a tame deer, with such turnings and doubles that the hounds could not take it faster than His Majesty proceeded; yet still by the industry of the huntsman and the subtilty of him that made the train in a full mouthed cry all the way, it was never further distant than one close [field] from the highway whereby His Highness rode, and for the most part directly against His Majesty; who, together with the whole company, had the lee wind from the hounds; to the end they might the better perceive and judge of the uniformity of the cry.
After His Majesty had come from Kingsland, there was a division amongst the people, which way His Highness would take when he came at Islington; but,, in fine, lie came the higher way, by the west end of the church; which street hath ever since, and I guess ever will be called King's Street by the inhabitants of the same.
When His Highness had passed Islington, and another place called New Rents, and entered into a close called Wood's Close by a way, cut of purpose, through a bank, for His Majesty's more convenient passage into the Charterhouse garden ; the people that were there assembled, I can compare to nothing more conveniently than to imagine every grass to have been metamorphosed into a man in a moment, the multitude was so marvellous. Amongst whom were the children of the Hospital [the Bluecoat School, see Vol. IV. p. 240] singing, orderly placed for His Majesty's coming along through them; but all displaced by reason of the rudeness ot such a multitude.
After His Majesty was come among the press of the people, the shouts and clamours were so great that one